Send emails

Ecodev-core provides a generic method to send emails.

In order for it to work, one has to specify the following environment variables:

• email_smtp: the smtp address of your smtp provider (smtp.gmail.com) for gmail for instance
• email_sender: the email address to be used to send emails.
• email_password: the email_sender password. Documentation on how to do it via gmail.

Once this is done, the method signature looks like so:

send_email(email: str, body: str, topic: str, images: Dict[str, Path]) -> None:

where:

• email is the email address to which to send the email
• body is the mail body to send. This can be a html file rendered with Jinja2
• topic: is the email title
• images: if any, the Dict of image tags:image paths to incorporate in the email